Diversity, equity and inclusion programs would be banned in North Carolina’s public schools under a bill filed by one of the top Republican leaders in the state legislature. On Monday, Senate leader Phil Berger filed Senate Bill 227, titled “Eliminating ‘DEI’ in Public Education.” “We cannot teach our nation’s history without acknowledging our past,” Berger said…
The Pentagon has denied media reports that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had ordered a halt in offensive cyber operations against Russia, according to a senior defense official. Hegseth has neither canceled nor delayed any cyber operations directed against malicious Russian targets and there has been no stand-down order whatsoever from that priority, said the official who was granted…
Angie Stone, a Grammy-nominated R&B singer and songwriter who found success as part of the 1990s neo-soul movement after nearly two decades in the music business, died early Saturday in a traffic accident in Alabama, according to the Associated Press. She was 63. Her death was confirmed by the music producer Walter Millsap III, who told the…
A case of shingles has sidelined Harrison Ford, who dropped out as an Oscars presenter over the weekend. His “Star Wars” partner in crime, Mark Hamill, will replace him at the podium, ABC News reported. No sooner had the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced the 82-year-old “Indiana Jones” star as a presenter last Wednesday than…
A former Eaton County sheriff’s corrections deputy was sentenced to 17½ years in federal prison for distributing child pornography. Ethan Eversman, 25, of Ionia, in May solicited sexually explicit videos of a 15-year-old New York girl. The girl created videos and sent them to Eversman. A month later, according to a plea agreement, he sent two of them to another…
A dentist told the FBI he didn’t plan to follow through on violent threats he sent to a variety of public figures, including celebrities and an election official, who he disagreed with on politics, federal prosecutors wrote in court documents. Richard Glenn Kantwill, of Tampa, Florida, said he “was a ‘keyboard warrior’ who was on a ‘verbal tirade’”…
